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CHILDREN are being forced to pickpocket, shoplift and beg in “Oliver Twist scenarios” across Britain, the anti-slavery commissioner warned yesterday.
Kevin Hyland, who was appointed commissioner by Theresa May in November, said youngsters are part of lucrative criminal operations that net real-life Fagins huge fortunes in ill-gotten gains.
He said: “We are in the 21st century and yet we have Oliver Twist scenarios happening in our streets and cities.”
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland